Improvement in stocking-supporter attachments



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND WESTON, OF WEST RANDOLPH, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOGKINGSUPPORTER ATTACHMENTS.

Sp eeitieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,113, dated April21, 1874; application filed January 3, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND WESTON, of West Randolph, of the county ofOrange and State of Vermont, have invented a new and usefulStocking-Supporter Attachment; and do hereby declare the san-ie to befully described in the following speciiication and represented in theaccompanying drawing, of which- Figure l is a front elevation, Fig. 2 arear view, Fig. 3 an edge elevation, and Fig. 4 a bottom view, of it.

In such drawings, A denotes the body part of the attachment,itzconsisting of a metallic plate, formed as shownfand provided, nearits upper edge, with a slot, a, and being, at or near its lower end,turned up or furnished with a liange or troughcd lip, b, in which a slotor hole, c, is or may be made, all being as shown in the drawings. Tothe said body there is pivoted, as represented at f, a sectoral arm, oran arm, B, furnished with an eccentric or cam, d, and also with aprojection or knob, e, all being as exhibited in the drawings.

In using the attachment, it is to be fastened to an elastic webbing orband, extending from a belt or waistband, such elastic band being passedthrough the slot af, as is the case with other attachments for likepurposes. A stock ing to be held by the attachment is to have its upperpart laid or lapped upon the lip or lian ge b, after which the arm B isto be turned down upon the stocking, so as to pinch it between the lipand the end or cam d of the arm. The cloth, being forced into the slotc, will be held the stronger thereby. The lip may be without the slot o,but with the slot the hold of the cloth is enhanced. The knob orprojection e serves to enable a person to readily move the clamp-arm, toeither confine .the stocking to the part A or release it therefrom, asoccasion may require.

Such an attachment is not liable either to wear or tear a stocking, aswill an attachment provided with a pin or tongue, which for securing itto the stocking, has to be run through it.

I claim- A The stocking supporter attachment coniposed of the slottedand flanged 'body A and the locking-arm B, with its cam or projection d,all combined, constructed, and arranged substantially as specified.

EDMUND WESTON.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNow.

